Otter 0.7.1 - Online Table Top Environment Renderer

[Ian Jackson]

I am pleased to announce Otter 0.7.1.  The changelog is below.

This release contains minor doc improvements and significant build
fixes which mean it will build with recent Nightly Rust.


Otter is a system for playing board games online, but it is not like
most other such systems.  In the words of the README:

  It does not know (nor does it need to know) the rules of the game you
  are playing.  Instead, it lets you and your friends play with common
  tabletop/boardgame elements such as hands of cards, boards, and so on.

Full information can be found in the online README and documentation:
  https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/otter/docs/README.html
  https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/otter/docs/

Otter can be obtained via git:
  https://salsa.debian.org/iwj/otter
For the releases, there are a PGP signed tags there, otter-X.Y.Z.

When I made the first public release, I blogged about it here:
  https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/8121.html
  https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/tag/otter



Version 0.7.1 - 2021-06-09
==========================

Bugfixes
--------

 * `make shapelib` builds, and reports a URL for, the actual
   documentation for shape library layout and spec syntax, not to an
   obsolete location.

Installation and deployment changes
-----------------------------------

 * Better documentation of how to install just the command line
   game management client (eg for use via ssh).

 * Update Rocket dependency in Cargo.lock to one which builds with
   recent Nightly Rust.

 * Update usvg dependency in Cargo.toml to a version with revised
   less-insane command line parsing, and adjust all calls to it.

 * Updated other dependencies.

 * Work around a cargo bug which breaks the docs build:
    https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/9564

Installation and deployment changes
-----------------------------------

 * Improvements to release checklist and release script.  Notably,
   add a checklist item for checking the build on recent Nightly.


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